Trajectories of Labour Market Liberalisation in Spain

An Empirical Approach to the Historical Evolution of Institutional Change

Bibliographic Data

ID4125769
AuthorsLuis Cárdenas Del Rey (0000-0003-3508-5916), Luis Cárdenas (0000-0002-6554-5832, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author)
Year2023
Issue183
Pages121-132
Publication date2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0210-5233 • E-ISSN: 1988-5903
PublisherCentro de Investigaciones Sociologicas (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.5477/cis/reis.183.121
OpenAlexW4387985086
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

The aim of this paper is to analyse institutional change in the Spanish labour market in from a historical perspective, particularly regarding two main areas: labour regulation and collective bargaining. The main thesis is that it is possible to identify four main stages. Firstly, there was an institutional structure unfavourable to workers, which was overcome by the agency of the labour movement in the period of the so-called desarrollismo (1960-1975). Secondly, the years of transition from dictatorship to democracy (1976-1983) were a period of labour market regulation. Thirdly, there was a period of labour market dualism (1984-1996) based on the application of flexibility at the margin in the face of veto power. This was followed by deregulation (1997-2019), which was a consequence of the weakening of power resources resulting from the previous labour market segmentation

Agency (philosophy · Bargaining power · Collective bargaining · Democracy · Democratization · Deregulation · Dictatorship · Dualism · Economic system · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Labour economics · Liberalization · Market economy · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Veto · Employment and Welfare Studies · Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies · Labor Law and Work Dynamics

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